White-necked Rockfowl
Picathartes gymnocephalus(Temminck, CJ, 1825)
English (US) White-necked Rockfowl
The White-necked Rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Picathartidae (Rockfowl) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: locally in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and GhanaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Picathartes gymnocephalus
- Family
- Picathartidae (Rockfowl)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- White-necked Rockfowl
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1825)
No guides listed yet for White-necked Rockfowl
Be the first expert to offer guided tours for this species.
Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Corvus gymnocephalus
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1825)
- Type locality
- locality unknown, but English possessions on coast of Guinea suggested by Temminck.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.55, vol.2 pl.327
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
Other species of the family Rockfowl
Looking for a different species?